Quick question regarding GWX air cover

[GoldenRivet]

First this is not a gripe about GWX 2.1, im just trying to satisfy my own tactical curiosity and modify my patrol accodringly...

I have Searched GWX manual briefly as well as known history text etc.

Im en route to the U.S. East coast to cooperate in Paukenschlag in January 1942. And a PBY catalina aircraft is pinning me down at least 4 times per day and about 2 or 3 times per night. i never stay up long enough to determine whether or not it is a Canadian or American aircraft.

But knowing the state of readiness the United States lacked in ASW warfare and particularly their lack of ASW patrol craft and aircraft on the East Coast for the first few months of 1942 it seems like im crash diving to evade these PBY Catalinas rather frequently, and even in dark moonless nights they seem to find me with pinpoint accuracy. do they have radar this early?

my crew spots them with enough time for me to crash dive, but my estimate would be that im crash diving in the early morning hours before dawn, the mid morning hours after dawn, the mid day hours around noon, and the late afternoon hours. (they release bombs pretty much every time so i know im being spotted in the very least.)

at night im repeating the process a couple of times with crash dives to evade the PBY at around 10PM and around 2AM.

My grid location is currently CB36, and this has been a constant occurance between that location and my route through grids CC 14, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26.

is the air cover off the American Coast supposed to be so dense as to locate my boat with such frequency this early in America's Join date?

Date is January 14, 1942.

I could be mistaken but i thought that i had read books which indicated that only about 80 planes were based on the eastern seaboard from southern florida to northern maine and that most of the time, half of them were in a state of disrepair.

Just looking for clarification.

Thanks.

[GoldenRivet]

Interesting... i say something about it and then i get one air patrol over the next 4 days in the game. i must have been in a high traffic area or something

[HW3]

It is air patrols from Halifax, not the United States.:yep:

[GoldenRivet]

It is air patrols from Halifax, not the United States.:yep:

thats what i was thinking but not sticking around long enough to take a peak at the roundels i wasnt sure.

[McHibbins]

I could be mistaken but i thought that i had read books which indicated that only about 80 planes were based on the eastern seaboard from southern florida to northern maine and that most of the time, half of them were in a state of disrepair.

Just looking for clarification.

Thanks.

Right !

Clay Blaire (Uboat-war against America) said also that the USA was nearly defenceless at that time.

[GoldenRivet]

guess it was canadian, once i closed in on the coastal waters of the US within maybe 100km of shore i only had a few encounters with inadequate ASW aircraft over the course of a week... more like it.

took a haul of nearly 30,000 tons of misc shipping, overlooked a large fishing boat, was depth charged by a clemson in deep water.

after the voyage to the USA and chasing a few contacts around, feul supply forced my return to france. uneventful passage both ways in open atlantic.

i recommend the experience... still didnt see any lighted american ships which was a bit dissapointing. unfortunate considering many didnt get the memo regarding lights out procedures. :rotfl:

[HW3]

If you go to the map screen in game and look in the upper left corner, you will find a copy of the game map there. Pull it down and look around Halifax and you will see the range of the aircover there from 1941 onward.